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Thomas Schmall

@thomasschmall.bsky.social

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Artist living in the #Netherlands. Here with art and opinions. Only art at... Pixey: https://pixey.org/i/portfolio/ThomasSchmall Insta: https://www.instagram.com/thomas.schmall/ Or my site: https://www.oxpal.com/

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Thomas Schmall @thomasschmall.bsky.social · Nov 24

Time to jump to the sky - Word is, that it's nice for following and dropping #art.

Here is my last big piece, before a health-related painting break.
Hope I get the hang of it.

#イラスト #outside #pleinair #mixedmedia #watercolors #duinen #treepainting #noordzee #ink #inkdrawing #inkpen #paintings

Watercolor and ink painting on wood, depicting pine trees and flowers on dunes.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

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Indivisible ❌👑 @handle.invalid · 1d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 1d

artists, what's your favorite part to draw? quote this post!

mine: colorful plants, moss 🌱🥦

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · 2d

La ville derrière les volets
#Pastel on #Pastelmat
40x30 cm

The second #PastelPainting of my Parisian series. I've always been charmed by Parisian rooftops and chimneys. More versions of this #cityscape to come.

#pastelart #sunset #paris #art #painting #feance #rooftops

Pastel painting of a view on the Montmartre district at sunset from the window of an apartment in Paris, where I've been staying this summer.
Vivid sunset colours in the sky and a more dimmed palette for the buildings (Siena, blue/gray and creme tones).

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Thomas Schmall @thomasschmall.bsky.social · 2d

Get that outta here! 🫸

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C.R. Gill Art @catalyst-artworks.bsky.social · 2d

Watercolor painting by Rosalind Allchin. Blue flag iris seed pods. #botanicalart

A large watercolor painting of dried out seed pods surrounded by dead leaves. That doesn't explain the depth of colours in the browns or the movement in the composition. Beautiful.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Thomas Schmall @thomasschmall.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, what a fantastic podcast! The plot twist pivot from tariffs to AI ownership was great.

I only wished they skipped the 10min banter, because this one needed two hours more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EklE...
#Economics #AI #Tariffs #Equality #USEconomy @justinwolfers.bsky.social @profgalloway.com

The Most Important Economic Debate of our Lifetime — ft. Justin Wolfers | Prof G Markets

YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

www.youtube.com

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Thomas Schmall @thomasschmall.bsky.social · 4d

I assume it's because Israel keeps bombing them and the West doesn't stop it. They surely don't like the Russians, but they're kind of in a corner and desperate for allies.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 4d

“We gave you a 400-million-dollar 747. You’re not sticking us in some Idaho shithole.”

Qataris Reject Trump’s Idaho Offer and Demand Airbase at Mar-a-Lago

“We gave you a 400-million-dollar 747. You’re not sticking us in some Idaho shithole.”

www.borowitzreport.com

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · 4d

Alice
#PanPastel on #Sennelier #pastel paper
40x30 cm

My daughter came to sit for a #portrait session at my local life model painting club. Lately I really like to #sketch or lay the base of a #PastelPainting with PanPastel (pigment powders pressed in a small pan that you apply with tiny sponges).

Lightly sketched portrait of my 19 year old daughter. Light warm brown background, blue/grey outlines, soft colour accents here and there. bright eyes and earrings.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 4d

Just heard Drew Struzan passed away 😞 His incredible work has given me and countless others so much awe, joy and inspiration!

I had posters of his work as a teen, I began using color pencils because I thought he used them too. Always inspired by him. Just utterly heart broken.

RIP Drew Struzan.

Drew Struzan’s poster of Big Trouble in Little China

Drew Struzan’s poster of Pan’s Labyrinth

Drew Struzan’s poster of Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom

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Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 4d

Space[X]'s 3rd employee, "who investigated all of Space[X]’s rocket failures, is going to space"

............but not on a Space[X] rocket lmao 😶‍🌫️

Hans Koenigsmann, who investigated all of SpaceX’s rocket failures, is going to space

“I’ve always been interested to experience Max Q from the inside.”…

arstechnica.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Thomas Schmall @thomasschmall.bsky.social · 6d

What do you mean with geometry-independent?

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 6d

A stick, hanging in mid-air?
What's going on?

Hazel glue fungus!

Keeping a dead twig attached to a living stem allows the glue fungus to break it down without competition from the many other fungi that work at ground level. Nature is *so* amazing!

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 8d

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8d

One Battle After Another

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 8d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Thomas Schmall @thomasschmall.bsky.social · 9d

This looks like a huge step - in Houdini the volumes are used as a base everywhere.

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aXL99 _(:3 」∠ ) @axl99.bsky.social · 10d

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#art #artpost #anime #oc #csp

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 12d

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Thomas Schmall @thomasschmall.bsky.social · 11d

Volla OS could maybe be interesting. I haven't tried it myself yet, but they have a Google-freed Android version. And a phone they made themselves. And that one can also run a Linux mobile OS.

youtu.be/Dh-rIxrGXFU

Could the Volla Phone be my new smartphone? First impressions of their Degoogled Android ROM

YouTube video by The Linux Experiment

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Cecilia Di Miceli @ceciliadimiceli.bsky.social · 11d

Pont du Port à l'Anglais
#Pastel on coated pastel paper
30x40cm

I'm finally getting back into a painting rhythm! This is the first #PastelPainting of a mini series about #Paris. The second is in the making. For this one I worked almost exclusively with #PanPastel.

#pastelart #waterscape #France

Vaguely impressionist style painting, with dominant blue and green tones, of a Parisian bridge on the river (Seine). The water and bridge are in the foreground, the archs sustaining the bridge and a long boat passing by occupy the middle ground. In the background greenery and sparse houses.

Warm light, serene atmosphere.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12d

The Danish Presidency is pushing a dangerous proposal in the EU that would allow the government to scan all our private communications. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat

www.eff.org

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